If George wants to clone a Neanderthal, why not clone Sasquatch? George Church, interview by Spiegel SPIEGEL: Mr. Church, do you believe in God? Church: I would be blind, if I didn’t see that faith in an overall plan resulted in where we are today. Faith is a very powerful[...]
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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: of God and cloning Neanderthals
Radical Republicans: Rubio is not a scinewtist so he heads Science Ctee.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was appointed chair of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard last week, a subsidiary to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that will be headed by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Rubio is among many Republicans who have deferred t[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: UF study of lice DNA shows first clothes 170,000 years ago
from esciencenews.com David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, studies lice in modern humans to better understand human evolution and migration patterns. His latest five-year study used DNA sequencing to calculate when clothing lice first be[...]
UPCOMING EVENT: Stephen Meyer Shows Why Darwin Was Wrong
For those not in the know, Steve Meyers is Seattle’s Discovery Institute’s leader in the effort to show that Darwin and Bio9logy are wrong. Dr. Meyers, with a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge, is a founder the Institute’s Center for Science & Cultur[...]
Is Steve Meyer One of Seattle’s Great Biologists?
The Discovery Institute’s mask just slipped a bit more Atheism, Creationism by PZ Myers That ghastly collection of homophobes and right-wing zombies, Focus on the Patriarchy, is starting a new initiative to take on the happily growing army of student atheists. They’re launching a series of ‘ed[...]
Why evolution is wrong
Evolutionary biologists of today are confronted with the problem of explaining how such an enormous amount of information contained in the most basic cell could have been organized into a life form using only chance, material, and time. The historical explanation has been to claim that time on the o[...]
Sunday Revelation: As Obama Gives His Second Inauguaral Address: Words From John Winthrop, 1630
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke and to provide for our posterity is to followe the Counsell of Micah, to doe Justly, to love mercy, to walke humbly with our God, for this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, [&he[...]
Why Do Liberals Diss Charter Schools?
Phil Plait, Slate’s pugilistic anti-anti science journalist, blames charter schools for the use of public money in Texas to teach creationism :“…why is Texas (and with new schools opening, also Arkansas and Indiana) spending a whopping $82 million of taxpayers’ money every y[...]